Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy
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For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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Jean Webster's Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy are two extremely enchanting and charming epistolary novels. The first part offers an insight into the life of Judy Abbott, an orphan who suddenly finds her situation very much improved and therefore tries to find out as much as possible about the person who seems to be so interested in her personal well-being. Of course, the reader at a very early stage already has a very precise suspicion, but it nevertheless is highly entertaining to observe Judy's efforts to unmask her "Daddy-Long-Legs", especially as Judy's unique personality and distinct and sometimes quite cheeky voice become obvious through her letters. The sequel is a collection of letters written by Sally McBride, Judy's childhood friend, who is now the superintendent of the orphanage Judy grew up in. Although her letters are every bit as cheeky as Judy's and there's also that bit of romance that keeps you interested, I found them a little less appealing - maybe because they were very much concerned with the pedagogy of the beginning of the century, which of course is dated and for the amount of pages spent on that topic simply not interesting enough. Still, I highly recommend these entertaining novels in the form of letters. They vividly depict independent and strong-minded, funny and intelligent young women. Enjoy!
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For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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Jean Webster's Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy are two extremely enchanting and charming epistolary novels. The first part offers an insight into the life of Judy Abbott, an orphan who suddenly finds her situation very much improved and therefore tries to find out as much as possible about the person who seems to be so interested in her personal well-being. Of course, the reader at a very early stage already has a very precise suspicion, but it nevertheless is highly entertaining to observe Judy's efforts to unmask her "Daddy-Long-Legs", especially as Judy's unique personality and distinct and sometimes quite cheeky voice become obvious through her letters. The sequel is a collection of letters written by Sally McBride, Judy's childhood friend, who is now the superintendent of the orphanage Judy grew up in. Although her letters are every bit as cheeky as Judy's and there's also that bit of romance that keeps you interested, I found them a little less appealing - maybe because they were very much concerned with the pedagogy of the beginning of the century, which of course is dated and for the amount of pages spent on that topic simply not interesting enough. Still, I highly recommend these entertaining novels in the form of letters. They vividly depict independent and strong-minded, funny and intelligent young women. Enjoy!